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Flailing his arms and howling with indignation, Russia's most famous poet declaimed his verse to a packed house at Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum last week at the beginning of a U.S. tour. Eugene McCarthy read a poem against the war in Viet Nam. He was joined by more professional American poets, including James Dickey and Richard Wilbur. The Bijou Singers emitted a chorus of eerie wails, echoing such Yevtushenko lines as: "The stars in your flag, America, are bullet holes." The climax of the spectacle came, however, when Yevtushenko read Bombs for Balalaikas, composed overnight...
...Like a poet who recites a poem before an audience: he may do it so many nights that he just doesn't feel like it every time. But he has to display the mannerisms and tone of voice which give the audience the feeling in the poem. He's got to put on a good...
...patently a repository of memory and romance. Indeed, one of his earliest temptations is to step into a picture in his Crimean bedroom showing a path that disappears into a wood. He is very much like one of Nabokov's most delightful creations, Art Longwood of the poem "Ballad of Longwood Glen," who climbs a tree and simply disappears...
...most esteemed figure among them is the poet. "Six or seven words, generally enigmatic, may come to a man's mind. He cannot contain himself and shouts them out. If the poem does not stir [people], nothing comes to pass; but if the poet's words strike them, they all draw away without a sound, under the command of a holy dread. Now he is a man no longer but a god, and anyone has license to kill...
...Grad Chorale always includes a commissioned work on its programs and always by a composer within the Harvard community. Two of John Stewart's pieces were given premieres last Friday: his Pie Jesu (1965) and The Windhover (1971), a setting of the Gerard Manley Hopkins poem. The latter was by far the better piece. Beginning and ending with female voices only in tone clusters, it calls for seven winds and string bass--all of which were first rate. There is some use of klangfarbenmelodie, the production of a melodic line with varied tone colors, but only with the instruments...